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What creative ideas have you been rambling on?

172 sats \ 18 comments \ @deSign_r 18h Design

This post is part of a series. It is meant to be a place for stackers to discuss creative projects they have been working on, or ideas they are aiming to build. Regardless of your project being personal, professional, physical, digital, or even simply an idea to brainstorm together.

If you have any creative projects or ideas that you have been working on or want to eventually work on... This is a place for discussing those, gather initial feedback and feel more energetic on bringing it to the next level.

Thanks @Kontext @td @SHA256man @SimpleStacker @k00b @justin_shocknet for joining and sharing your ideas in the previous edition. How are you all doing with your projects? Any update?

₿e Creative, have Fun!

45 sats \ 1 reply \ @deSign_r OP 5h

$The$ $creative$ $adult$ $is$ $the$ $child$ $who$ $survived.$ —Ursula Le Guin

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 56m

Great quote

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatAttack 12h

I’ve long wanted to combine two passions of mine. Bitcoin and poker. I want to do this in the form of a meet-up style poker game where it is mandatory to use Lightning to buy in and cash out.

Tiny game. The goal is to spread the word and use of LN, not have people lose a bunch of sats. It’s cool how well the LN could facilitate a game like that. You could play a game as small as 200 sat buy in with 1 sat 2 sat as the blinds! What other electronic payment network would make that seamless? None!

I’ve dreamt of it for a while. I haven’t done anything besides dream, but I imagine the game being held once a month at a facility that lets us buy food and drinks with sats, once a month, bitcoin books and zines all around for people to look through, Lessons from competent bitcoiners teaching others the tools and wallets available to us, awesome bitcoin conversation while we beat each other up on the poker felt.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @deSign_r OP 4h

That's great! Would that be in real life meet-up or an online version of it?

In both cases, yes, Lightning is great, but exclude a lot of people (and bitcoiners) that don't know or simply don't use Lightning. It's good that you are trying to merge these two passions, but you cannot expect others have to have the same match.

if your goal is to have fun and organize poker tournaments once a month, I'd focus on that first. Gather the crowd you like, then slowly, as organizer, you could provide options to buy chips with, including lighting and bitcoin.

I'd start simple, find the location first. I fear that if you promote bitcoin+poker, people will continue seeing it just as a gambling game, instead of sound money.

27 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 15h

I'm mostly bug hunting. The closest thing to something creative I've been thinking about is how to add incremental aggregate statistics to the micropayment engine. Currently we do periodic refreshes over recent time ranges, but that creates lag in the aggregate values that I find inelegant (and people get confused about them).

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @deSign_r OP 4h

Bug hunting could be fun too. Have you tried giving yourself a prize every time you find or fix one?

add incremental aggregate statistics to the micropayment engine.

Tricky I guess, and totally out of my comfort zone because not sure what incremental aggregates refers too. Data? is the lag created because the time ranges are fixed to begin with? Or could it start from now() and go backward instead?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3h

Bug hunting could be fun too

Indeed

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 14h

Thinking something like running timescale in parallel and query that on the fly?

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 14h

I find framework/tool/infrastructure additions to be more trouble than they're worth at SN's scale.¹

We currently construct time buckets of stats in a normal table. Instead of continuously refreshing those time buckets, I'm thinking of doing some kind of incremental update atomic with a payment's state transitions.

my general vibe is to abuse what we have (frameworks/abstractions/whatever) until they can't do the job anymore ↩

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 12h

my general vibe is to abuse what we have (frameworks/abstractions/whatever) until they can't do the job anymore ↩

I think this is the way to go in general, even beyond your scale. New systems can be such a can of worms and should only be added with great care (of course there are exceptions)

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @SHA256man 16h

well, i have started studying the Trivium and Quadrivium, are u familiar with those methods of education and design, @deSign_r? my logos are temporarily on hold, but the production is there! it is slowly being distributed, the logos will be applied over time;

check these out: Quadrivium Trivium there is also a book called DESIGNA in rhe same series, i oedered that one too;

69 sats \ 2 replies \ @deSign_r OP 4h

Yes indeed, I read the quadrivium and trivium some time ago. I fully missed the DESIGNA somehow. Getting it right now!

The logos will come, remember is a game of cause-effect, even if today is more going into probabilistics, I'm sure that once all elements are there the logo will come.

Look forward too knwo how the production is going, the process you are applying and obviously, share the final outcome when and if you can.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SHA256man 1h

the sauerkraut production suddenly exploded, and the latest batch is really juicy; i started mixing other ingredients (e.g. carrots, pepper) into the fermentation; the next items are kombucha and raw-milk yogurt!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SHA256man 1h

the wooden books series also has Geomancy - earth grids, ley lines, feng shui, divination, dowsing & dragons;

128 sats \ 3 replies \ @justin_shocknet 17h

Hoping a re-think of shockwallet's node up screen helps Pub users not accidentally Bootstrap the wallet and end up down the wrong path😅

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @deSign_r OP 4h

It's probably worth to contextualize where this screen will appear, I assume is part or the beginning of a user-journey to accomplish a specific task (adding a funding source).

I feel these elements' setup will work much better compared with the current one. Firstly because is less confusing, secondly, is not trying to prioritize one option or another for the user.

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 15h

I dig the sketchbook styling

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 15h

Started wireframing in excalidraw recently, found I was wasting too much time on design and prototyping using a real tool... better results too I think because it forces us to use standard components

... and one less SaaS subscription

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